So I was at work when the heavies came into town.
My office is directly below final approach and the sound of 4800 horsepower caught my attention.
Needless to say, I decided to check it out afterwards.

One hot ride deserves another...






Turbo-Supercharging 40's style !

If there are any others in the 707 area, hit me up. We should get together for a cruise and photo shoot in the valley !

 

Nice!

 

Always loved the B-17.

Are you out at Travis AFB?

 

Now THERE'S a nice lineup!

 

Nice.

 

nice

 

Thx Fellas,

It was at the Napa County Airport.
There was a bunch of men/women from the Air Mobile Command based at Travis though.
Afterwards everyone went to the bar to watch the Stanley cup finals and it looked like some kind of officers club.
All in all, it was a great time...watchin the B-17 taxi off was F-in awesome.

 

There's a great steakhouse at that airport. I think it's called Jonesy's, if my teenage memories of the late '80s / early '90s are correct.

 

^^^yeah, its jonesy's. They just re-modeled it 2 years ago and its pretty nice !

 

RedVoodoo,

What part of the 530 are you in ?

 

Plumas Lake, about 20 minutes north of Natomas on CA-70.

 

Gotcha, 530 is such a huge area !

 

Turbo?!

 

Kool pixs mang. what's up with the swaztika in the front those are American bombers right?

 

^^^Yeah, Those are american bombers.
It probably represents how many enemy fighters that bomber shot down.
The bomb symbols represent how many missions that bomber flew in.

 

Those are kills.

 

Effing awesome. I would kill to get a shot of my AM in the same frame as either a B17 or B24. A P51 in non-painted aluminum would be the ultimate!
Many moons ago, I was running past Martin State Airport near Baltimore in my 79 Trans Am and saw "Fifi", a fully restored B29 taxiing out for takeoff. Everyone had pulled to the side of the road to watch this HUGE aircraft takeoff. I'm surprised it didn't cause any accidents. That airport was the scene of an F117 Stealth fighter crash some years later during an airshow.
Nice shots---thanks for sharing.

 

^^^ that would be cool.
Now that I know there are so many aviation buffs, Ill post up some pix of previous airshows. stay tuned.

 

nice looking pics

 

So here are a couple more pix that my friend took of some racing P-51's in his hometown Hollister airport.


So F-n Sic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




I also have a $hit ton of pix from Fleet week in SF, Capitol Air show in Sac, and Nellis air show but cant find them at the moment. I will look more.

If you dig the car scene, I got countless car shows, concours de elegance from multiple years etc etc. Lemme know if your interested and I'll post some in a diff thread.

L8R

 

Most of the race P-51's are sportin aftermarket composite wings, race canopy's and Rousch performance parts.

"Frickin sweet !" - Peter Griffin